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i'm inviting you to an ikuhara-themed halloween party again!! ←～（o ｀▽´ )oΨ

go spin the updated wheel here and tell what costume you've got!! (around 100 characters to choose from!)

[lazycranberrydoodles]

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[horse-girl-anthy]

Yurikuma Arashi Chapter 1 Cover Page - By Morishima Akiko

[animefeminist]

Becoming Monstrous: Yurikuma Arashi and transmisogyny in the school system

Content Warning: Discussion of queer/transphobia (including slurs), online and workplace harassment, grooming, systemic violence

Spoilers for Yurikuma Arashi, referenced spoilers for Puella Magi Madoka Magica

“This is the nature of systems: the moment you reject them, you are forced to realize that they’re the very ground you’re standing on.” -Ikuhara Kunihiko

Two bears are presented with a choice: will you be invisible, or will you eat humans? They look like teddy bears, and they are on trial. wo girl bears–two lesbian girls–Ginko and Lily, standing before three male judges deciding whether or not they should have the right to exist. In order to have their love approved, they declare: they will eat humans. They transform, taking on human form as they don hypersexualized bear girl outfits, and they enter the world of the school.

Yurikuma Arashi places this strange set-piece towards the middle of its first three episodes. It exemplifies the show’s style, told as it is in enigmatic parables. Ostensibly, Yurikuma is about a human girl named Kureha seeking answers about the deaths of her mother and girlfriend while getting into a love triangle involving the two bears who have infiltrated her school disguised as humans.

However, everything in Yurikuma Arashi is more symbol than literal representation, and I have often mulled over its meaning as I’ve navigated entering the teaching profession as a nonbinary Chinese person. Like the bears, I’ve often asked myself: what do I sacrifice to be allowed to exist within the school?

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[lifethenecropolis]

September 13-14 I will be at Kamcon 2025 in Kamloops BC!

#kamcon2025 #kamloops #yka

[iztarshi]

Ikuhara shows are not only designed for literary analysis, they’re designed for only literary analysis. They take it from "the curtains are blue because X is depressed" to "if X is depressed the blue curtains will be present even if X is in a field". It becomes impossible to talk about the blue curtains without talking about how X is depressed. You can't extrapolate that maybe X likes blue in their interior decorating. You can't even extrapolate anything about what kind of person would put curtains in a field. There is no Watsonian level.

[bad-kendi]

[miyanoyoshi]

Watching Yuri Kuma Arashi for the plot and totally not for the metaphors about lesbians sex (<- Liar)